#0 - Dec. 11, 2008, 2:54 a.m.
I sent in a GM complaint about this quest earlier today and basically the response goes like this.
Q u o t e:
Thank you for contacting the World of Warcraft Game Master Department.
Petition: "Going Bearback" Quest title.
I'm sorry but this is unacceptable. The very usage of this term though skewed by using Bear instead of the alternate is just offensive.
This quest name needs to be changed. Not only does it send the wrong message to what the quest is about but it allows for people to make jokes refering to the quest on a very dangerous topic which kids need to be aware of the dangers of as opposed to poking jokes about it by altering the name of a word to make light of it.
Answer: Yeah thats a bit much. You can also bring this up in the Customer Service forum. They have a more direct link to the developers than we do here.
Ok so that's fine, I'll post a note about it here instead.
What the hell were the developers thinking when they decided to toss this into the game as a quest title? This is the single most ignorant thing I have ever seen done in a game where the developers are compeltely aware of the fact that children are playing this game and show complete disregard for that fact by naming a quest in such a manner.
It's bad enough that we have seen this sort of thing in the past but someone needs to take the time to sanitize the stupidity of the development team for a change and start laying down some hard guidelines for what is and is not acceptable and actually fire people that step over that line so as to send a clear message that this sort of thing is intolerable.
I don't care what the excuse is of the developers that are responsible for this quest title. I've already seen one person after another making light of this as if it's funny and I've seen kids asking questions about it as well and it's not healthy in any way to spark such dialogs in a MMO of this nature. It invites unpopular views and misinformation into young and impressionable minds in a reckless manner.
This is disgusting and the person(s) responsible for this should be put on notice that this sort stupidity will not be tolerated by the management at Blizzard. I just cannot believe that this was permitted to be pushed into the game without someone thinking that this was a bad idea or terrible thing to reference in the game in any form.